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Paste JSON As Classes In Visual Studio 2013

In this article, we will see a very important feature of visual studio 2013 i.e. ‘Paste JSON as classes’. This feature helps you to convert the JSON copied in your clipboard to classes.

Create A Sample JSON

First of all create a sample JSON. I will use following JSON

{
  "Name": "Karan Gupta",
  "Age": 28,
  "Technology": "JSON",
  "Address": {
    "City": "Gurgaon",
    "State": "Haryana"
  }
}

Create A Sample Project

Next step is to create a sample project (any project type). And inside the project create a sample C# class. Once you create the class you could see the code something like this

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Web;

namespace Demo {
	public class PasteJsonAsClasses {}
}

Now next step is to delete the class code. So the preceding code will be

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Web;

namespace Demo {

}

Paste JSON As Classes

Now copy the JSON content and go to Edit – Paste Special – Paste JSON as classes (see the following figure)

Click to Enlarge

Once you click on it, you see the classes get created automatically. So the code will be

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Web;

namespace Demo {

	public class Rootobject {
		public string Name {
			get;
			set;
		}
		public int Age {
			get;
			set;
		}
		public string Technology {
			get;
			set;
		}
		public Address Address {
			get;
			set;
		}
	}

	public class Address {
		public string City {
			get;
			set;
		}
		public string State {
			get;
			set;
		}
	}

}

Posted By -	Karan Gupta

Posted On -	Wednesday, January 20, 2016

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